The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there i….

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law..

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something..

A great teacher makes hard things easy..

How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the ….

The first steps in Agriculture, Astronomy, Zoology, (those first steps which the farmer, the hunter, and the sailor take,) teach that nature's dice a….

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning d….

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the gr….

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways..

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood..

Every great man is unique..

Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we….

We must be lovers, and at once the impossible becomes possible..

It now appears that the negro race is, more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization. The emancipation is observed, in the islands, to have ….

An actually existing fly is more important than a possibly existing angel..

Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used..

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point..

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors..

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action..

Belief and love,--a believing love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists. There is a soul at the centre of nature, and ov….

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